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A lot has been made of IQ. But how important is it? Not nearly as much as we once thought.
Our view of human intelligence is far too narrow. It ignores a crucial range of multiple intelligence abilities.
Mental dexterity is not the only measure of higher-order thinking. Self-awareness,…

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else, which is before it, beside it, over it and under it.
-Goethe
Connecting with nature is different from learning about nature. Here we will reintroduce our human connection to nature. Where did it start and how…

Technology is expanding faster than our society’s evolution. Much of these new technologies have consumers spinning and craving the next trend or fad and it makes it even hard to for educators to decide what is needed in the classroom. Before we can even entertain bringing technology into the…

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that is has taken place.
-George Bernard Shaw
Every morning, the moment we wake up, we begin to communicate. It may be with an exuberant yawn, or a disparaging grunt. We stumble to the kitchen to make ourselves a cup of coffee or tea…

Well, the holidays are over, and it’s the standardized testing time of the year! As a teacher and a learner, I wish with all my heart this wasn’t necessary….that students’ understanding and progress could be measured by individually through completely authentic strategies, such as portfolio…